Why is Boulder sending out another biased survey?

No doubt many of you remember the surveys the city of Boulder sent out a couple of years ago that were so biased as to be essentially useless other than as propaganda pieces. Well, last Friday I and many others received another one of these sell-jobs enticingly titled “Family-Friendly Vibrant Neighborhoods.”

Translating, this means adding the maximum density to the still surviving lower density parts of Boulder that the council can do without violating the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan...

As the election season heats up, housing affordability is once again a key issue.  Those in the majority on City Council, who align themselves with the self-named “Boulder Progressives” have repeatedly endorsed free market approaches: build more (and more) and prices will automatically fall. But there is no evidence to support that view. Not in Boulder…

Positions on density and growth policies in Boulder have become a hot-button, divisive issue of late. The debate is centered around the issue of Housing, both its affordability and availability. Boulder has a problem of not having enough housing for all the people who want to live here, particularly those who work here and commute in from elsewhere. The solution it seems, is to provide more housing and also increase the occupancy in existing housing stock. However within the context of Boulder's limited-growth environment this is not easy as it will require relaxation of Boulder's limits to density and occupancy and other changes in its limited growth policies.